Show THE COAL FIELDS OF PLEASANT VALLEY jual and sevier written up the railways make a ascent in passing up the jordan into utah valley the striking feature or the valley is a lake of tresh about toa by thirty miles in banked on the west by a long low barren mountain but with glossy borders elsewhere sloping gently upward to the foot of the wasatch sweeping round in a semicircle semi circle from lehi tc payson a distance of fiffy or sixt miles on the Timpa bottoms wrote gunnison nearly fort years ago wheat grows most luguri bously and the root crops are seldom excelled A continuous field can bo made thence to the wa ke te ke summit creek and the lovely utah valley made to sustain a population of more than inhabitants the field was long since made and the population probably numbers 25 the towns are lichi american fork pleasant grove provo spring villo spanish fork payson balom and santaquin San accumulations ol 01 garden spots the houses half concealed by vines and fruit trees the trout of utah ijane compares well in quality with the trout of any of the waters of the west if not of the east the fishing makes it a favorite resort of the tate aborigines after whom the lake the county and the territory were named we cool dhave spared utah better than the other indianu names of springs and creeks in this charming basin Timpa po mont quint wa ko te lse quinetta Pe Tet enete wa tage onarato On apato timpa monna etc at spanish fork the rio franl western railway turns into the can yon of that name and climbs over th wasatch range en route to denbei passing through an interesting re gion nearly all the way to grano junction the wasatch itself ia es specially ally interesting there an square miles and mountains of bitu minous shale there is oil on the wai ers there are of sandstone sat with oil asphalt and para fine and it is about the summit tha the and and othe hydrocarbons hydro carbons which have caused sc macch inquiry are found the coa at pleasant valley underlies un delies thirty 01 forty square miles the veins are four teen i beet and slope outward thi output last year was about tons and this may bo increased al most indefinitely at will just avei the mountain on price river a coking coal has recently been found which has stood the test of a thirty hours run in the germania smelter and is pronounced by manager thomas R jones a good article the ippei part of green river valley is an indian reservation but the governments agents have long been training these poor creatures in the art ol 01 husbandry and in a few years the will be fitted to take their lands iu severalty and become citizens tin basin of utah lake may bo said to end in the vicinity of nephi an important and grov ing town at the mouth of salt creek an independent railway line hero leaves the utah central and via salt croel footers valley passing down through several towns to manti and looking to an extension into and up the boier alley lol of these valleys are deep in the wasatch range san peto once an old lake without doubt now drained off southward by the San pitch river which heads about mount nebo as the sevier heads far south beyond mount baldy the latter runs northward the former southward they meet at gunnison and the sevier breaks through the ridge on the west here low and light pass out on the desert and sinks in sevier lake the people of sanpete valley are mainly engaged in farming and stock growing hero the wheat and oats are often higher than the fences A white building and flagging stone oolite is plentiful in the valloy and is used iu the construction of th temple at manti there is a field 0 good coal over the mountain east 0 fairview at present inaccessible ex capt by teams the valley has nine a population of 15 to yet it is doubtful it one fourth of the land is cultivated thai there is water for about mount nebo there are lead silver mines and almost within thi town limits of nephi ledges of gyp sum and marble as white as wool the latter is not as yet found in per feet condition however and for gypsum there is at but little market there are by the way out crops of marble various in hue and kind and quality south and east of the city none of which have been much exploited euils is attributable like of other in utah to lack 0 capital and of trans por tation facilities the utah central railway continues southward beyond nephi strikes the river near juab follows it down out of the mountains on the desert crosses the latter and rests for the present at milford in beaver valley about miles from the city thence a spur climbs up westward 1700 feet in seventeen miles to the base of grampian ampian Gr mountain stooping at the ore bins of the born silver mine which shipped to its binol ors in salt lake an average of nine arty tons of ore pur day for four years jf late years the mine has been in but now begins to give entering upon a second pro lucice era thirteen million dollars lave been taken out 0 which the stockholders tock holders received in dividends there is more or less mining car led on within twenty miles of milord in every direction there would jo a great deal more but for the lack t capital it is a line country to jling tu ana aitio are brought to he market for so a ton at the month of cove creek about thirty miles east of black station there is a field of brimstone which might ship tons of sul chur per day for fifty years why does it not do so then you ask disputes and litigation the supply is practically unlimited A hundred miles south of the terminus are the bearing sandstone of ailder beef out of which has been extracted an average of half a ounces of silver per year foi he last ten years this silver reel s a hundred miles long but has been I 1 aund to be fertile in only this one locality between codar city and i workable vein of good bituminous oal crops out of the wasatch here i mesa about a thousand feet below he top this bed is supposed to ex tend back as far as the mountain is a able ten or twenty miles west of cedar city and south vard cropping out in a belt two aniles wide by sixteen are deposits of iron ores of various kinds and qualify which are regarded as among the most remarkable iron deposits known one of them called the blowout is estimated by experts to contain tons standing above the general level of the country professor john S cowberry Now berry has analyzed these ores and pronounced some of them good bessemer ores ail of southwestern utah is a succession of mineral bearing ranges the union pacific railway company is about to continue this riou thum utah road to the coast lot us return northward to juab on the sevier whore the railway first strikes tho river the union pacific railway company is also contemplating tho construction up instead ol 01 down the sevier as far as salina ind through the efalina canyon to the jabale valley coal fields one of the argean in utah tho veins crop out in places fourteen feet thick and the oal is of good quality caddo valley m about from aalt Lake eit sevier valley seems to the iko a world by itself an ancient laan low drained from gunnison to moi oe fourscore miles the soil is fu f mineral salts and al kalies ordering mountains are of all shapes md colors there are foothills of bait ind gypsum and warm through salina canyon ore passes a stward into valleys sloping to atio colorado eastward from mon oe clear creek canyon and cocu areek canyon heading near each ther oien oi en a i ass into beaver valley chere ay iy a great deal of land lu levier valley and much that would nake fine farms with the river turned jut upon it the river canyons above chere once thero was a dam holding jack another lake above just above ho canyon towers mt baldy east ol 01 beaver one of the highest peaks or ache wasatch and low down its slopes opening out to tho is ahe mining district of marysvale Marys vale patiently awaiting half asleep ali coming of the locomotive the I 1 arks in these high altitudes and double parallel valleys entend a hundred miles further to the sources oi the river in ponds of sweet water full jf fish not excelled in the world aa lummer resorts up there aro farming settlements and timber and graec and mines lead silver gold amna bar antimony mines which need transportation only to become paying properties all this southern country especially the valleys in the range and on either near the range is adapted to stock growing in an extraordinary degree tho winters are comparatively mild the valleys sheltered and tho varying altitudes in close proximity afford a change of pasturage during the seasons dan de quillo calls attention to the fact that the steppes of the world are the natural home of the finest horses and counts the raising of horses as one of the principal future occupations of the people inhabiting the steppes ol 01 utah nevada and the other arid territories and states |